RT Journal Article SR Electronic A1 Kouba, Luděk T1 Discussion on the conclusions of the Neoclassical Growth Theory and the New Growth Theory and the alternative explanation for the different economic performance JF Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis YR 2014 VO 53 IS 3 SP 251 OP 256 DO 10.11118/actaun200553030251 UL https://acta.mendelu.cz/artkey/acu-200503-0024.php AB The paper in the first instatnce resumes the conclusions of the most important contemporary growth approaches - the Neoclassical Growth Theory and the New Growth Theory. In the third part there are discused crucial aspects of the both growth approaches and are mentioned some empirical arguments. The final part of this paper presents three conclusions: the challenge to validity of the New Growth Theory. The question about the basic traditional growth theory assumption that individual economies occur the production possibility frontier. And finally the conviction that the necessary condition for the succesful economic development is the right institutional system.